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Weeks before the official opening of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, one production is already becoming the most talked-about performance of the summer — despite almost nobody knowing exactly what happens in it.

The city barely sleeps during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, but this year something unusual is happening after midnight. Audiences leaving late-night comedy and theatre shows are lingering in the closes, stairways and hidden courtyards around the Old Town